Special Education Simulation Opinions by Laurie Foss

Station 1: Reading with distraction

lfoss2 — 2016-01-15 20:58:49 UTC

What supports do you think you can give students who get easily distracted in class?

Station 2: Reading difficulties

lfoss2 — 2016-01-19 15:40:34 UTC

What supports do you think you can give to students who struggle with words, and reading for information?

Station 3: Writing difficulties

lfoss2 — 2016-01-19 15:41:03 UTC

What supports do you think you can give to students who have difficulties forming words, sentences, and concepts when trying to write?

Station 4: Math Difficulties

lfoss2 — 2016-01-19 15:41:22 UTC

What supports do you think you can give students who have a difficult time working with math, numbers, equations, etc.

Station 5: Speech Difficulties

lfoss2 — 2016-01-19 15:41:38 UTC

What supports do you think you can give students who have a difficult time with their speech?

Station 6: Dyslexia

lfoss2 — 2016-01-19 15:41:51 UTC

What supports do you think you can give to students who have difficulties recognizing words when reading?

Very hard to say what you want to

2016-01-20 20:02:58 UTC

Writing

2016-01-20 20:03:31 UTC

It's very difficult to think about all the rules you need to follow while trying to write

2016-01-20 20:06:09 UTC

It makes sense now why special ed students will shut down sometimes because their impairments and difficulties can sometimes be discouraging.

2016-01-20 20:08:43 UTC

Quiet learning environment.

2016-01-20 20:10:20 UTC

Decode a sentence or two and then reread those to get the idea in their heads before moving on to the next couple sentences.

2016-01-20 20:10:20 UTC

Students have to focus so much on the words that they lose sense of what the words mean

2016-01-20 20:10:28 UTC

It can be extremely frusturating because I knew the right answer but couldn't figure out a way to get my message across.

2016-01-20 20:15:34 UTC

It would be a struggle to keep up with the class

Writing

2016-01-20 20:20:01 UTC

hard to concentrate and make you not want to do it.

2016-01-20 20:21:10 UTC

The dyslexia challenge made me realize that kids with reading disabilities aren't even concerned with comprehension, they only focus on what each word is.